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IMAGE: CNS photo/Ghulamullah Habibi, EPABy Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has requested a special study session at the Vaticanto look at how to solve the growing problem of drug abuse, especially narcotics.Leadingexperts from around the world are being invited "to examine and discusspossible innovative socio-political solutions" to drug use, abuse andprevention, a papal academy said."Followinga special wish of Pope Francis, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is organizinga two-day workshop" Nov. 23-24 on the global problem of and solutions tothe abuse of narcotics, according to the academy's website, www.casinapioiv.va.Narcotics or opiates include heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine andmorphine.Theprogram will look at the history of drug use; how drugs are being produced,distributed and consumed; and preventing substance abuse, especially inchildren and young people, the website said."Drugsare one of the scourges of our globalized world, despite the enormous resou...
Muhammad Ali is hospitalized in the Phoenix area with what two people familiar with his condition say may be more serious problems than his previous hospital stays....
TOKYO (AP) -- The remarkable survival of a 7-year-old Japanese boy, abandoned in a forest by his parents who wanted to teach him a lesson, prompted nationwide joy and relief Friday. But Japanese also wondered whether the father and mother themselves need a stern lesson in parenting....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The path to the campus shooting death of a UCLA professor began nearly 2,000 miles away in Minnesota....
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Fort Hood commanders were in the process of closing roads on the sprawling Army post in Central Texas when a truck carrying 12 soldiers overturned in a fast-flowing flooded creek during a training exercise, killing five and leaving four missing, officials said Friday....
PARIS (AP) -- The swollen Seine River kept rising Friday, spilling into Paris streets and forcing one landmark after another to shut on Friday. Across the city, parks and cemeteries were being closed as the city braced for flooding that could take weeks to fully clear....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- More than 110 bodies were pulled from the sea off Libya's shores Friday after a smuggling boat carrying mainly African migrants sank into the Mediterranean, and a separate massive search-and-rescue operation in the open sea saved 340 people and recovered nine bodies....
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- FIFA has revealed that disgraced former officials Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner awarded themselves raises and World Cup bonuses totaling $80 million over their last five years in office....
(Vatican Radio) There are a great many hymns written in honour of the Sacred Heart. These hymns make a strong appeal to the emotions. One reason perhaps why the devotion grew so fast was that it counteracted an overemphasis on rationalistic religion. Monsignor Philip Whitmore...Listen to a musical meditation presented by Monsignor Philip Whitmore and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
(Vatican Radio) On Friday 3 June, Pope Francis celebrated Holy Mass with priests in St Peter's Square as part of a special Jubilee of Mercy for Priests.Please find below the prepared text for the Holy Father's Homily: This celebration of the Jubilee for Priests on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus invites us all to turn to the heart, the deepest root and foundation of every person, the focus of our affective life and, in a word, his or her very core. Today we contemplate two hearts: the Heart of the Good Shepherd and our own heart as priests. The Heart of the Good Shepherd is not only the Heart that shows us mercy, but is itself mercy. There the Father’s love shines forth; there I know I am welcomed and understood as I am; there, with all my sins and limitations, I know the certainty that I am chosen and loved. Contemplating that heart, I renew my...
